<h1>Darrel Manson</h1>

Darrel Manson

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Puzzle – Constructing Happiness

Puzzle – Constructing Happiness

Aug 2, 2018

?Life is random, but when you finish a puzzle you know you?ve made all the right choices.? My wife enjoys jigsaw puzzles. I help a (very) little bit from time to time, but they aren?t really my thing. But in Marc Turtletaub?s film Puzzle, this pastime becomes a force...

Calling All Earthlings – The Look of Faith?

Aug 1, 2018

In the California desert, near Joshua Tree and 29 Palms stands a strange domed building that is the focus of belief in UFOs, conspiracy theories, and a small part of the birth of the counter-culture and emergence of New Age ideas. Calling All Earthlings is a...

Paths of Blood- Meet Al Qaeda Terrorists

Paths of Blood- Meet Al Qaeda Terrorists

Jul 13, 2018

Path of Blood is an opportunity to meet a few Islamic terrorists. Yeah, not the people I look forward to meeting either, but this documentary from Jonathan Hacker gives us a chance to meet some of those in Al Qaeda and we may be surprised at what we see. The film is...

Custody – A Child’s Pain in Divorce

Custody – A Child’s Pain in Divorce

Jul 13, 2018

Custody is a moving look at the pain that can come from a family disintegration?especially as that pain manifests in a child. Mariam (L?a Drucker) and Antoine (Denis M?nochet) are divorcing. The key issue to be decided is the custody arrangement for their son Julien...

Damsel – A Comedy (sort of) of Pessimism

Damsel – A Comedy (sort of) of Pessimism

Jul 7, 2018

?Love and survival are all I want.? ?You?re not exclusive in that notion.? In Damsel, the Zellner Brothers play with some typical movie genres. As a result, viewers are asked to wrap their minds around things that seem to not quite fit together, but in reality make...

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

Jun 17, 2018

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1454, it ushered in a new era for spreading knowledge. The basic idea of type, ink, and paper coming together to make books, newspapers, posters remained the same (with small variations and improvements) for...

Incredibles 2 – Family Bonds

Incredibles 2 – Family Bonds

Jun 14, 2018

Incredibles 2 continues the story of the Parr family from The Incredibles. While it is ostensibly a superhero story, at its heart this is a film about family and especially about parenting as children go through all the changes of growing up. As in the original,...